For a long time now many people have asked why the images they see on crime watch are so poor. If you come from outside the CCTV community its hard to understand what is so difficult about producing a set of images that will actually be able to identify a criminal who is taking part in some kind of burglary, vandalism or any kind of illegal event that is captured on CCTV.
The truth is analogue CCTV was never going to cut it, well not unless you put hundreds of cameras into a system and recorded at ridiculously high frame rates. Memory has only recently become available that would allow the sort of length of recording time most consider necessary anyway.
So over the last few years the CCTV industry has taken short cuts. It has failed to sell enough cameras to cover a scene . It records but electronically throws away most of the information and worse of all we scimp on lighting and quality lenses. This adds up to gross mis-selling and customers who find that when they really need CCTV evidence it actually has never been captured beyond a set of jerky fuzzy images that make a laughing stock of CCTV installers.
To be fair though CCTV has actually worked to a degree over the years. It has deterered crime , it has led to convictions , confessions and resignations so the concept of CCTV cameras is a sound one.
Now the exciting news, We have the concept and now HD CCTV solutions can actually deliver images that will be not only be crystal clear but will be what most would consider excellent in quality. Of course with quality comes deterrent. HD CCTV solutions can deliver images that will be able to show criminals features and crimes taking place in addition HD cameras can also see number plates when sited and focused correctly as well as view processes such as scenes within a factory such as a production process.
HD cameras are here now and we can deliver HD through IP or over coax the opportunity for clarity now is just beginning but with a few short years HD CCTV cameras will have transformed the CCTV industry beyond recognition. Those fuzzy unusable CCTV images of the past will be resigned to the history books